THE HOWARD GILMAN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
FRIEDRICH NAUMANN FOUNDATION
Tel Aviv University
Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities
The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Antisemitism and Racism
Technische Universität, Berlin
Zentrum fur Antisemitismusforschung
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion The One-Hundred Year Myth and Its Impact
International conference, October 24 26, 2004,
Tel Aviv University
Opening Session: Sunday, October 24, 17:00 20:00
17:00 18:00 Gathering and refreshments
Exhibition of unique versions of the Protocols. )Courtesy of the Wiener Library(
Greetings: Prof. Shimon Yankielowicz , Rector, Tel Aviv University
Greetings: Mr. Natan Sharansky, Minister for Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs
Opening Remarks: Prof. Dina Porat, Head, Stephen Roth Institute
Keynote Address: Prof. Zvi Bacharach, Bar-Ilan University
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: Fueling Antisemitic Myth and Lies
Chairperson: Dr. Roni Stauber, Acting Director, Stephen Roth Institute
Monday, October 25
9:30 11:30 - Origins of the Myth
Chairperson: Judge Hadassa Ben Itto, Israel
Johannes Heil, Technische Universität Thomas of Monmouth and the Protocols of the Elders of Narbonne
Oliver Hemmerle, Mannheim University Why Joly? Was His Text Plagiarized by a Caprice of (Mis)Fortune Only?
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Northwestern University The Enemy of Humanity: Napoleon
Bonaparte and the Genesis of the Protocols
11:30 12:00 coffee break
12:00 13:00 - Interwar Period and the Nazi Era
Chairperson: Kenneth Jacobson, ADL
Henryk Baran, University of Albany The Struggle against the Protocols, 1920s-1930s, in Light of New Archival Sources
Milton Shain, University of Cape Town The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in South Africa: From Radical White Right to Radical Islamists
13:00 14:30 Special Lunch Session, Prof. Wolfgang Benz, Technische Universität: Hate and Absurdity: The Impact of the Protocols
Chairperson: René Klaff, Friedrich Naumann Foundation
14:30 16:00 - Interwar Period and the Nazi Era
Chairperson: Arnon Gutfeld, Tel Aviv University
Yaccov Ariel, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Philo-Semites Embracing the Protocols?: American Fundamentalists and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Shlomo Netzer, Tel Aviv University - Antisemitism and the Protocols in Interwar Poland
Michael Berkowitz, University College, London From The Elders of Zion to Leaders of Zionism: The Nazi Intensification of Anti-Zionism, June 1944 and Beyond
16:00 16:30 coffee break
16:30 18:00 - The Nazi and the Postwar Eras
Chairperson: Anne Marie Revcolevschi, FMS, Paris
Graciela Ben-Dror, Tel Aviv University - The Protocols in Argentina in the 1930s and the 1940s
Thomas Williford, Vanderbilt University The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Political Rhetoric in Colombia on the Eve of La Violencia
Wolfram Meyer zu Uptrup, German Ministry of Education The Role of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Nazi Ideology, Policy and Crimes
Tuesday, October 26
9:30 11:00 - The Protocols Today
Chairperson: Michel Friedman, Germany
Juliane Wetzel, Technische Universität The Protocols in the World Wide Web: The Networking of Radical Political Groups via Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories
Michael Whine, CST, BoD of British Jews Holocaust Denial in the New Millennium
René Monzat, France - The New Wave of French Publications on Jewish Conspiracy
11:00 11:30 coffee break
11:30 13:00 - Japan and South America
Chairperson: Bobby Brown, WJC, Jerusalem
David Goodman, University of Illinois Lessons of the Protocols from Japan
Adrian Jmelnizky, DAIA, Argentina - Discussion of the Protocols as a Basis for Antisemitism in Argentina during the Military Regime, 1971-1983
13:00 14:00 lunch break
14:00 15:30 - The Middle East and the Arab World
Chairperson: Corinne Evens, The Evens Foundation
Esther Webman, Tel Aviv University - The Adoption of the Protocols in the Arab Anti-Israel Discourse
Rifat N. Bali, Turkey The Protocols in Turkey: 1950s - Today
Goetz Nordbruch, Humboldt University Rationalizing the Hidden Hand: Abdel Wahab-al-Messiris Theory of Jewish Functional Groups and the Judaization
Of Society
15:30 16:00 coffee break
16:00 18:00 - Eastern Europe in the Communist and the Post-Communist Era
Chairperson and Closing Remarks: Israel Singer, The Claims Conference
Beate Kosmala, Technische Universität The Pretence of Jewish Conspiracy in the Anti-Zionist Campaign of 1968 in Poland Antisemitism or Political Calculation? The Example of the City of Lodz
Mordechai Altshuler, Hebrew University The Impact of the Protocols on Soviet Propaganda
Raphael Vago, Tel Aviv University - The Legacy of the Protocols in Post-Communist Eastern Europe
The Institute for the Study of Antisemitism and Racism wishes to thank our partners: ADL, WJC, The Global Forum against Antisemitism, Jewish Agency, the JOINT, and the Claims Conference
All sessions will take place in the Gilman Building, Room 496, except the opening session which will be at the Malka Brender Hall of Justice, Trubowicz Building.
Entrance through gate 4 or 14